SOURCE: Engel, Charlene. “Language and the Music of the Spheres: Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” In The Films of Steven Spielberg: Critical Essays, edited by Charles L. P. Silet, pp. 47-56. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2002.
In the following essay, Engel asserts that Close Encounters of the Third Kind is primarily concerned with language in a variety of forms—“verbal, visual, electronic, and musical.”
